davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21

They tell good story at the Press Club about
one of the nautical reporters of the Herald. Some
three years ago there was o young Journalist en-
ployed in the capacity at a salary OF SIS week;
collision had occurred between two steamers
and some lives had been lost. The young reporter
wrote ford description In which he used the
words, speaking of the moment when the vessel
colided, the scene that followed battles descrip-
tion." Young Bennett was at home and went for
him.
why did you not describe the scene that fol-
lowed instead OF saying that it baffled descrIp-
tion?" Numbered the great man.
why, 1t did battle description"
What do you mean, STRIP
That 1t bahled the description of any SI5 a
week reporter
Bennett raised his salary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21
Harpswel Steamboat Co.

HarpSWeu steamboat 20.
On and after September 10th 1887. steamer
Gordon, Capt. James l.. Long, will run daily as
follows:
Bailey's Island 100; Harpswell, 7.15; East End,
Great Chebeague, .45; jerks, 500; Hope Is
land sos; Little Chebeague, $40; Long Island
$40, arriving In Portland at 9.15 a. m.
Returning will leave Portland for Orr's Island
and all intermediate landings at 200 p. m.
sep1 9dtf ISAIAH DANIELS. Manager.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21
RumfOrd Falls L Buckfield Railroad
summer Arrangement-In Effect Junn q,
N&AT.

Leave Portland, via G.. r. Railway, ITO a. m.
lewiston 500; Mechanic Falls linked trsinl
BAD; arriving at w. Minot Dos; Il. Hebron $50;
Buckheld 9.45; 4. Sumner 1885, Hartford,
1O.56; Canton Ills.
Leave Portland 100 D. M; Lewiston zCOl
Mechanic Falls 3.15; arriving az w. Minot S5Oi
4. Hebron $40; Buckneld $50; r. sumner a;O0i
Hartford Ala Canton Att GnoertVihe 500 y
RETURNING-Leave Canton 4.5o, 9.15 an;
arriving at Portland S.25 a. m, l2.Vo 2. IN,
On SATURDAYS only, a third train leaves OdhtOn
2. as D. I'M. Bneknefd 3.25; arriving at Lewiston
$40: Portland GAS p. M returning on aItNa.
al train leaving Boston loo, ana fOrtland
Il AZ M M Excursion tickets Will Dc sold be-
tween Portland Lewiston and stations ON X. II. 4
n good 10 return same day or Monday. BY leav-
inc Portland at 40 a. m. several hours can DO
spent IN oxford Comfy and return same day; or
\ trip taken up the AndroscOggin Valley to Rum
ford Falls returning Monday
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
DAILY-From w. NinOt $50 D. m for Hebron
Academy; Buekield $50 p. m. for W. Sumner
and Turner Canton 4.27 p. M; arriving at Peru
$50; Dixneld 500; Mexico TOO D. M also for
Brettun's Mills, LlyermOre. Returning. leave
Mexico 600, Dxneld 100 a. m. arriving az Port
land 1905 D. m. l.. L. LINCOLN 9upf
r. Q. BRADFORD. g. 7. A. ian3ctf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21

Received daily, by private wire, by Ii. N Pink
ham, broker. Exchange street. Portland. Me:
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.
Mondays quotations.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21
Grain Quotations.

PARRsBoRO. Bark Ella Moore-5S5 tons coal
TO q 7 X Co.
Schr Mayfower, GAG do.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21

WISCASSET, Sept 17-Sld, sch Two Brothers,
Dodge, Kennebec.
Sept 19-Ar, sch VIM L Leggett, Lewis, Boston.
Sept 2o-Sld, sch Niger, Adams, Boston.
GREEN'S LANDING, Sept 1O-Ar, sch David
Brown Barbour Boston.
Sept 16-Ar schs Valparaiso, Tyler, Boston;
Feetwing. Robbins, do T; Pochasset, Racket,
Portland, TO load for New York.
Sept l7-Ar. sch Eunice Newccmb Allen, for
Boston.
Sept 1S-Ar, schs Nevada, Judkins. Boston;
Exact, Smith, Bangor.
Sid, sen Stella Lee, for New York
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21
sAILlno DAYS OF STEAMSHIPS.
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND

TUESDAY, Sept. 20.
Arrived.
Steamer State of Maine, Hnliard, st John, NIB,
via Eastport for Boston.
BarQue Ella Moore, (Br) Byers, Parrsboro. Ms
coal to q Ky Go. Vessel TO Ryan g. Kelsey.
Sch Edith May, Kelley, Reimbursement to s
Chase.
Sch Eagle, Foster, New York-oil to X 0 Co.
Sch Mayt1ower, (Br) Harvey, Parrsboro, Ms
coal to q L Try Co.
Sch A Hooper, Calder, Boston.
Sch Sargass0 Alley, Jonesport.
Sch Arrival, Stewart, Camden lime TO j. Q Cum
mings a. Co.
Sch z ODER, Denning, Rockport.
Sch w Pendleton, Weber. DamariSc0tta.
Sch Mary Elizabeth, Dunton, Boothbay.
Sen Paul Esse, Cape Cod, with 230 bbls large
mackerel.
Cleared.
Brig Raven. Stewart, Bear River, Ms, to load
for Cuba Chase Leavitt & Co.
Sch Falmouth, Clark, BALTIMORE S Winslow
&Co
Sch Herald, (Br) Merriam, Parrsboro, Ms. yam
q Ke sey
Sch Addle j. Francis, Millbridge-N Blake.
Sch Clinton, Wilson, Millbridge-N Blake.
Sch Walter G Hall. Hanson, Machias-N Blake
Sch Georgianna, Marshall, Bangor-Paris Flour
ing Co.
Sch Willie seavey, Simmons. Frendship-N
Blake.
Sch L II Hartman, Wood Bucksport-
SAiLED-Brigs Sullivan, and 0deriIla; sch Fal-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21
PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.


PORTLAND, Sept. 20, 1887.
The following are to-day's closing quotations of
Grain. Provisions. &C.:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21

Always avoid harsh purgative pills. They first
make you sick, and then leave you constipated.
Carriers Little Liver Pills regulate the bowels
and make you well. Dose. one pill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-21

"Lemmy, you're pig!" said father to his son
a pig tsp" "'"'
Yes, sir. A pig is hogs little boy"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

too great a degree of caution Cannot be
observed to avoid sleeping in damp rooms,
beds or clothing, the temperature of the
bed chamber, if possible should never be
increased under the ordinary circumstances
OF health, by artificial means. As this
apartment is to be reserved solely for Sleep
tire is never necessary, excepting, posi-
bly,, during extreme cold weather. and
even then, the temperature ought not to
exceed fifty degrees.
sleeping apartment, in which heavy
lire has been kept for several hours prior
to retiring, may to some persons. at first
thought, offer great comfort But, right
here, great danger is very liable to occur,
since by heating the room to such an ex-
tent as has been referred to the system
becomes greatly enervated, creating an in
creased susceptibility to the influence of
the cold air, and thus the way is opened
to the attack of some of the most serious
diseases, especially of the throat and
lungs. Happy, indeed, should those per-
sons esteem themselves whose means for
bid an indulgence in this luxury. A per-
son accustomed to undress in room
without fire, and to seek repose in
a cold bed, will not experience the
least inconvenience, even in the sever
est OF winter weather. The natural
heat OF the body viii very speedily render
person, under such circumstances, even
more comfortable than he or she will be
who sleeps IN heated apartment, as ex-
perIence has amply verified. But this is
not all. The constitution of the one ac-
cuStomed to sleeping in room which is
not artiticially heated will be rendered
more robust and strong, and far less sus-
ceptible to the influence of atmospherical
vicissitudes than that person who is not so
accustomed to sleep.-George NJ Lorejoy in
Good housekeeping
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
Running the GantIat

An interview by an Albany Journal cor
respondent with woman customs inspector
at New York brought out these interesting
facts:
Very often We have had to be on the
wharyes at q in the morning, rain or shine,
and there have been nights when VIC used
the latch-keys to our homes at midnight
How are We led TO suspect passengers? BY
their faces and contours. The vast ma
Jorlty OF women who smuggle seldom turn
their faces from the inspectress. | inva-
rlably say to the woman suspected +" / am
afraid you have dutiable goods on your
person" They tap their bodices and in
vite me to examine them, and if call at
tention to their busties, saying that they
look unusually large, they say that the size
is the latest from Paris. Some women. no
matter how warm it is, wear heavy ulsters,
and when | ask them if they do Iot wish to
remove them they graciously reply: "Oh,
no; | am quite comfortable" We can al
ways tell the guilty ones by the way they
sit down. The stiffness with which they
use their bodies is not compatible with the
graceful carriage of the head and arms, and
they are Immediately suspected CT having
goods concealed about their skirts. as q
rule they are mighty COOL Very few cry.
Their methods of concealment are many
Lace Is wound around their forms inside
their corsets and with thin women the cur
Natures in their corsets are packed with
rolls of lace. They stuff their stockings
with ribbons. Others partial to lace cur
tains have had their skirts made of them.
The bonnets with plums for ornaments
when dissected are found to contain dia-
monds. Some false heels to shoes have
been discovered. Inside, packed in cot
ton, have been found diamonds of the pu-
rest raw
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
Do Americans Work Too Hardo

1t Is said that the American people work
harder to obtain the almighty dollar" than
any other people or nation in the world.
while they are more lavish in spending
when they get it. This may be true or
not, but they certainly get more dollars for
the same work than any other people, and
they are not generally penurious in spend
ing them for their own comfort and pleas
ure, or mean in aPpropriating them for
charity and all good works. 1t is GER
tail,ly true, also that many professional
and business men, lawyers and doctors,
merchants, etc, including some public Off
cials, especially in our large cities, work
too hard and destroy their health, by both
mental and physical exertion, protracted
for too long time without proper recrea-
ton. The workingmen and laboring
classes also complain of working too hard,
and the great question of the day are those
of "labor and wages" which claim atten-
ton through Strikes" labor organizations
socialistic and anarchical demonstrations
The question, Do Americans work too
hard?" requires a distinction to be made
between natives and foreigners who form
so large portion of the population of the
United States. Foreigners principally
perform what is considered the hardest
work, building railroads, mining coal and
other laborious employment, and whether
they work too hard, in fact, or harder than
Americans generally in other occupations,
is question which might be considered
by itself They probably do not work
harder in this than in their own country
or they would not continue to come here
in such large numbers. Both Americans
and foreigners however, will probably
claim that they have to work too hard"
City COMPTROLLER Loer in the Epoch
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
Ventilation of sIeeping-Room..

There are few houses the rooms of which
are so situated as to render good ventila-
ton impossible, and the influence of this
practice upon the health of inmates is too
important to permit being neglected from
any slight cause A hed-chamber should
be Invested of all unnecessary furniture.
and, unless of considerable size, should
never contain more than one bed. There
cannot be more pernicious custom than
that pursued by some-indeed, by MANY
families-of having their children sleep
in small apartments, with two, and some
times with three, beds crowded into the
same room. 1t is scarcely necessary to OBJ
serve that cleanliness, in the most extern
sive Specification of the term, is, if posi-
BILE, even more necessary with reference to
the bed-chamber than with almost any
other apartment in the whole house.
The practice of sleeping in room which
is occupied during the day time IS ex-
tremely unwise. Perfect cleanliness and
sufficient free ventilation cannot, under
such circumstances, be preserved, especially
during cold weather; hence the atmos-
phere becomes constantly more vitiated,
and altogether unfit for respiration. While
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
Washing Horses.

The custom in some countries of wash
ing horses in hot weather deserves some
consideration. A horse covered with per-
spiration, dry in patches, it may be, and
covered with dust, must feel refreshed. as
well as man, if the bathing be done at
the proper time and care exercised after
wards. The method adopt is thus de-
scribed: As soon as the horse is taken out
and harness removed, he is scraped down
carefully. Then bucket of tepid water
Is placed at hand aud the horse is sponged
all over quickly; after this he is rinsed
down with Watering pot of tepid water,
scraped and rubbed. Then some clean
straw is placed over the back and loins, and
over this light horse rug, and the horse
is put into his stall No draught is per-
mitted of course.
Reaction takes place in the capiIlaries of
the skin, and the horse gets dry and sleek.
He will now enjoy his feel and beverage
and takes his rest with enjoyment When
wanted again he will be found free from
marks of harness, presenting glossy coat
Some people are against washing, and
Justly so when it is done by lazy lon,s
but when it is done by an atiye groom
there is no risk, and the animal must be
much the better than when allowed to dry
off in perspiration and dust. The custom
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
A Bounty on Wheat.

New England, having grown enormously
rich IN manufacturing by persuading the
United States Government to force con-
sumers to pay it 81 80 for goods that are
worth only 81, proposes now to go into the
ship-building and ship-sailing business on
similar terms. 1t wants Congress to give
every ship-owner 80 cents a ton for every
1000 miles he runs his ship. If he builds
3,000-ton steamer he will get $4,000 for
every round trip to a South American port
5000 miles distant. This would he very
pretty business-so pleasant that its bene-
hts ought to be extended to other Ameri-
can citizens than those who live on the
Atlantic coast. Western farmers can't 90
into the shipping business. Even if they
were to build ships, they would encounter
many difficulties in sailing them over their
prairies and through their forests. But
they will take their share of Government
protection in the shape of a stiff bounty
say 10 cents a bushel-on all the grain
they raise. Farming is not always profit
able in the West. Frequently it costs
more to raise a bushel of grain than it
sells for, and many farmer finds that get
ting 81 for an acre of wheat and IS for an
acre of corn is poor business-quite as poor
as building ships without bounty is in
New England. II, therefore, the Govern
ment is to pay premium for building
ships on the Atlantic coast, it ought to ex-
tend the policy to the West, and pay
premium for raising corn and wheat in
kansas.-lS. Louis Republican (Dem.).
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
That Family Bill.

When | was a school teacher | was pres
ent on one occasion when the yearly bill
from the general dry goods store of the
neighborhood was brought in to the head
of the family, well-to-do farmer, who
drove pair of fine horses when he went to
town, expected to entertain the ministers
at least some of them, when the general
conference met-and held sort of leading
position in the community. The bill in
the year amounted to $50, and represented
the materials bought by the wife for her
self, for two little girls, and for family use
for twelve months-all carefully itemized
Its reception destroyed the peace of the
family for that day. The man said many
ugly words, charging his wife with dis
position to effect his ruin, and she herself
was somewhat appalled, by the sum total of
bill the extent of which she had not
anticipated.
After her husbands departure for the
fields she sat down to study it out. There
was piece of printed calico which had
been made up by her own hands into
dresses for herself and little girls; there
was piece of unbleached muslin which
had been made up into sheets and pillow
cases; there were shoes, hosiery, one pair
of cotton gloves, but SIS and some odd
cents were covered by socks, neckties and
shirtings for the two male members of the
family-father and son. For days the man
stormed and ragged whenever the "bill y
was alluded to, and it was week before
his wife could induce him to examine it,
and see that he himself was responsible for
the largest part of it, the items not cover
ing any of his own or his sons important
articles of clothing. This occurrence made
deep impression on my mind Chicago
Herald
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

CHAMELEON Color. = The complex
mechanism of the chameleon's changing
hues is thus described by Grant Allen:
Tiny corpuscles of different pigments are
sometimes hidden in the depths of the
chameleon's skin, and sometimes spread
out on its surface in an interlacing net
work of brown or purple. In addition to
this prime coloring- matter however, the
animal also possesses a yellow pigment,
and blueish layer in the skin, which acts
like the iridium glass so largely employed
by Dr. Salyiati, being seen as straw-col-
ored with transmitted light, but assum-
ing a faint lilac tint against an opaque sur
face. While sleeping, the chameleon be-
comes almost white in the shade, but if
light falls upon him he slowly darkens by
an automatic process. The movements of
the corpuscles are governed by opposite
nerves and muscles, which either cause
them to bury themselves under the true
skin, or to form an opaque ground behind
the blue layer, or to spread out in a rami-
flying mass on the outer surface, and so
produce almost any necessary shade of
gray, green, black or yellow.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

SHEEP AND LAMBs-Sheep are now
painfully worried by the gadhy Give
them shelter and low, close shed to
huddle in, where they can evade the pest.
Where the tick prevails this is a good
time to dip both sheep and lambs. Re-
move the rams, if any are kept, from the
flock, and put the eve lambs by them
selves with the wethers Ewes coupled in
October will lamb in March. If lambs
are not desired so early, keep the
rams separate. 1t is best to keep
the rams in separate lot and only turn
in the ewes at night. All sheep intended
for market should be sold at once; every
days delay is a loss of profit. To keep old
sheep is a waste of food. Examine the
feet and pare them when undergrown with
loose decayed horn, and shorten the two
long toes. This prevents foot-rot Give
breeding sheep extra feed; bran is the
best and eapest-Rural Neu Yorker.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

FArTENING TURKEYs-The following
is description of the way in which tur-
keys are fattened in: Norfolk, which is the
great English county for breeding these
birds, and preparing them for the London
markets: Turkeys for Christmas are shut
up in light, dry and roomy house the
first week in November; troughs with as
much maize and good Farley as they can
eat should always be by them, and they
have two good meals day OF Just as much
barley meal mixed with fiat milk as they
en- eat, and milk to drink. Sliced man
gels, turnips swedes and cabbage are use
full and necessary, and plenty of lime,
sand, ashes and brick-dust should e kept
in the corners of the house. 1t is found to
be most important that the troughs be well
cleaned out every morning, all surplus
food removed, for on farm there are usu-
ally plenty of other fowls to eat up what
is left by the turkeys Fed in this way
they rapidly pet on flesh, which is usually
very white in color and fine in TEXTURE
5. Bed!e in Country Gentleman
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

of washing legs is not Objectionable if the
legs are rubbed dry, but when tepid water
is used with elbow grease to well dry the
legs and heels especially, it is beneficial.
1t is only condemned because grooms do
not dry the heels, and the heels get
chilled, crack and scratches develop. No
horse should be put up for the night with
dirty feet or heofs. The feet should be
washed out carefully, and the grit removed
from under the shoes; the coronet should
be examined to see if any cut or tread ex-
lists. Many cases of lock jaw might have
been prevented had this care been taken
and the slight cut attended to at once.
The underpart of the tail should be
sponged every morning and evening.
Neglect Of this explains why horses rub
their tails bare and make such sorry
sights. The name also should be washed
at times, as we'll as brushed.-Germantoc
TsleqTaph.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

RICE VS.. OATMEAL.-The Boston Record
informs us that rice is taking the place of
oatmeal in this country, and that oatmeal
is not approved by most thinking hygien-
lists. We are also told that rice is more
easily digested, nutritious and withal
amiable food than oatmeal. This is news
paper chemistry, which generally is wrong
There may be objections to oatmeal, but to
say that rice Is more nutritious is simple
nonsense. Oatmeal only lacks fat to make
a perfect food, and this can readily be
added by butter. Rice, on the other hand,
lacks not only fat but all albumen oids.
See the analysis of the two. Oatmeal con-
tains higher percentage of albumenoids
than any other grain, viz: 126, that of
wheat being 10S, and of rice none, and
less of starch, 5S4, as against Co.'S in
wheat and 500 in rice. 1t has rather
more sugar, 81, wheat having only AZ and
a good deal more fat, viz: sc, against 90
in flour, and in rice 0.S. Lastly, salts
amount to 80 per cent. in oats, but only
IL in wheat, and 90 in rice. As the
value of a food depends entirely upon its
albumenoids, it is clearly seen that oat-
meal is infinitely superior to all other
cereals.-Americdn Anaiyst
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

A GARDEN AcQUIsITIoN-The Lucre-
tia dewberry is a real acquisition in the
way of fruits. In quality it is better than
any high-bush blackberry have tried. 1t
is earlier than the Wilson, and large,
noble-looking berry. do not see how it
can be grown well without stakes, but it
does not need any more care than our
choicest raspberries. Cut back when about
two or three feet in growth, and the arms
cut in. | should tie the main stalk or vine
to stake four feet high. 1t is really a
handsome vine in its spring Towering, and
if one prefers, it can be grown as cover
ing to rockeries. l have in one case grown
it alongside hedge, occasionally tying it
to the hedge. l should Judge that it
would be particularly fine as covering for
stone fences. The foliage is glossy and
very attractive, as well as the berries.
There is no failure in cropping, as there is
no blackberry more prolific-it is simply
loaded with fruit.-E. p Poaceu, in hide
pendent